DADGAD Blues
DADGAD Blues

Author: Rob MacKillop

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 1619116405

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Rob MacKillop presents 20 wonderful fingerstyle blues arrangements andcompositions in DADGAD tuning. The styles covered in this book include country blues, boogie woogie left-hand piano blues, early jazz blues, gut-bucket blues and modal blues. Great traditional songs are included such as St. James Infirmary Blues, St. Louis Blues, C. C. Rider and more, alongside 15 full-length studies. The book begins with easy arrangements, progressing to intermediate and more advanced ones - in short, these blues studies will improve your technique through playable 12-bar tunes. A wide array of chord and scale fingerings are also provided, including pentatonic minor and major scales, blues scales, diminished arpeggios and scales, 7th chords, whole-tone scales and the super Locrian mode and much more! All the tunes presented have accompanying audio recorded by Rob MacKillop and are available to download

Folk Songs for Banjo
Folk Songs for Banjo

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.

Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation

Published: 2014-01-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781617804175

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(Banjo). 40 traditional American folk songs arranged for clawhammer banjo, including: Amazing Grace * Arkansas Traveler * Beautiful Brown Eyes * The Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn) * Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight?) * (I Wish I Was In) Dixie * Down in the Valley * Give Me That Old Time Religion * Good Night Ladies * Home on the Range * Home Sweet Home * I've Been Working on the Railroad * In the Good Old Summertime * John Henry * Kumbaya * Man of Constant Sorrow * Michael Row the Boat Ashore * My Old Kentucky Home * Oh! Susanna * Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) * The Red River Valley * She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain * Turkey in the Straw * The Wabash Cannon Ball * When Johnny Comes Marching Home * When the Saints Go Marching In * Worried Man Blues * Yankee Doodle * and more!

Banjo Chords
Banjo Chords

Author: Mel Bay

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1609747267

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This handy book shows all of the basic banjo chords in photo and diagram form. the front of the book contains a section of bluegrass G-tuning chords, and the remainder contains C-tuning.

Basic Music Theory
Basic Music Theory

Author: Jonathan Harnum

Publisher: Questions Ink. Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780970751287

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Basic Music Theory takes you through the sometimes confusing world of written music with a clear, concise style that is at times funny and always friendly. The book is written by an experienced teacher using methods refined over more than ten years in his private teaching studio and in schools. --from publisher description.

Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus!
Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus!

Author: Wayne Erbsen

Publisher: Native Ground Books & Music

Published: 2014-05-26

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1883206677

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Beginning banjo lessons have never been more fun! Written for the absolute beginner, this FUN book is guaranteed to help you learn to play bluegrass banjo (How many books come with a personal guarantee by the author?). · Teaches the plain, naked melody to 23 easy bluegrass favorites without the rolls already incorporated into the tune. · Wayne shows simple ways to embellish each melody using easy rolls. · With Wayne’s unique method, you’ll learn to think for yourself! · Learn how to play a song in different ways, rather than memorizing ONE way. · Includes a link to download 99 instructional audio tracks off our website! You WILL learn to play: Bile ‘Em Cabbage Down, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, Columbus Stockade Blues, Down the Road, Groundhog, Little Maggie, Long Journey Home, Lynchburg Town, Man of Constant Sorrow, My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains, Nine Pound Hammer, Palms of Victory, Pass Me Not, Poor Ellen Smith, Pretty Polly, Put My Little Shoes Away, Red River Valley, Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms, Shall We Gather at the River, Wabash Cannonball, When I Lay My Burden Down, When the Saints Go Marching In.

Bluegrass Jamming on Fiddle
Bluegrass Jamming on Fiddle

Author: Wayne Erbsen

Publisher: Native Ground Music

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781883206635

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Bluegrass Jamming on Fiddle will teach the tools, tricks and tunes to jam in bluegrass style. It covers: 31 bluegrass jam standards, how to jam with others, how to improvise and make up your own tasteful licks and fills, almost painless music theory, how to play harmony, how to transpose and play in different keys, and everything you'll need to march fearlessly into your next jam or picking session! This FUN book is fully illustrated with almost 200 vintage photos. Coming soon: Bluegrass Jamming on Banjo (available Winter, 2012) and Bluegrass Jamming on Guitar (available Spring, 2013). All the books in the series are 96 pages, 9" x 12" and teach the same 31 tunes. Each book includes an audio instructional CD.

Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch
Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch

Author: Dan Levenson

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Incorporated

Published: 2015-05-22

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780786689095

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Southern Appalachian native Dan Levenson and Mel Bay Publications present Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch - A Guide for the Claw-less! This book teaches clawhammer banjo the way we play, not the way others say. It really begins as though you really have NO knowledge of how to play the five string banjo clawhammer style. Based on Dan's innovative Meet the Banjo program (where Dan brings 15 banjos and teaches players who may have never held a banjo), this book assumes no prior experience. Beginning at the beginning, Dan presents a brief history of the 5-string banjo then goes over the parts of the banjo, holding the banjo, right and left hand positions and his basic clawhammer strum. Even the strum is broken down into the steps of the finger and thumb. You are guidedthrough the chords, the scale and then the individual notes of each of 12 jam session favorite tunes from scratch. Includes audio recordings available for download online with all exercises, tunes (slow and up to speed), and a fiddle version of each tune.